I’m toying with the idea of making Friday the “Music Spotlight” day. So this might be the first edition of an on-going series.

Several years ago I heard a song on the radio called “Hands Open” and I loved it (and I only heard it on the radio once or maybe twice). They announced the artist as Snow Patrol and I remembered a friend telling me about them a year or so before. That album, Eyes Open went on to spawn the mega-hit “Chasing Cars.”

The album pictured above is actually a 5 song live EP called, Live and Acoustic from Park Avenue. If you know anything about my taste in music it should be that I’m a sucker for acoustic versions and Irish/Scottish indie rock. So, obviously, this is a nearly perfect album for me. It is available on amazon and itunes.

If you were to go out and pick up an album by them and can’t find this one, I would recommend starting with Final Straw which is where the songs on the EP come from. So check it out.

If you have any thoughts about Snow Patrol or Scottish/Irish indie rock, I’d love to hear them.